

Probably PalmOS.
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast
Probably PalmOS.
this car’s a lost and blinded fool…oh no I’ve said too much. I said it all.
Izzy doesn’t bite me. She steps on me a lot but she doesn’t bite.
Basically functioning as a digital proof of purchase.
Somebody’s gonna watch some Ashens tonight.
Yeah, the thing is I want to remove the possibility for the likes of Ted Cruz to have a say in anything technical.
I propose we call Microsoft’s portable Xbox a “Xune.”
I wonder if we need a multicameral legislature with several smaller bodies segregated by purpose.
Have a house of politicians, career folks who do things like treaties and appointment of diplomats, that sort of thing. This probably needs to be no term limit or lifetime appointment because the purpose here is to be a member of the boy’s club, you’re the guy the chancellor of Germany has a rapport with. If you’re caught taking bribes, foreign or domestic, your death will be humiliating and uncomfortable.
Have a house of professionals, open only to doctors, engineers, folks like that. This body handles industry regulation, this is where anything from highway construction to food and drug laws to aviation regulations will be written. I would be tempted to eliminate voting here and make it like jury duty. If you’ve got a professional degree or license, (in fact I’m favoring licenses; I don’t care if you have a medical degree, I want a license to practice medicine. I don’t care if you’ve got an AeroSci degree, I want an airline transport pilot certificate, I don’t care if you have an engineering degree, I want a certified PE) you might be called to serve a term. It might be that this year the body is made of ALL medical doctors as health, wellness and medicine related laws are reviewed and updated, then next year it’s all civil engineers and they review highway and building codes, etc. Maybe mixed sessions happen for things like occupational safety where industrial engineers and medical doctors both weigh in. May also need to include folks with technical certifications like nurses, A&P mechanics, folks like that. This body doesn’t touch social issues, only things like standards for mineral content in municipal water supplies and testing standards for fall arrest gear.
Have a house of businessmen, who are given fake microphones and staff that pretends to do what they’re told, with actors making fake news broadcasts that make them think they’re policies are enacted. I think a core problem with democracies in the modern day is they don’t feature such dummy loads, so we shall install such a thing.
A house of lawyers whose job it is to maintain things like contract law.
What else am I missing?
Very Douglas Adams. Those who are capable of being elected President are absolutely not qualified for the job.
Possibly through ignorance or misunderstanding, btu I still think the tech behind NFTs may have some function, but it’s certainly not the weird pictures of badly colored in monkeys speculation market that happened there.
The first two-way video call was demonstrated in 1930.
Is it correct to say we “cured” smallpox? A vaccine isn’t a cure, but we used that vaccine so effectively that we eradicated the disease. But the overall sentiment of your post holds up.
It did though? The Lord of the Rings was written in the 1930s and 1940’s, the moon landings took place in 1969-1972.
Increasingly, the software published on disc or cartridge is incomplete or unfinished, because there is pressure from management to ship retail products on time, but game development is hard, so the dev team will use the time during manufacturing and distribution of discs or cartridges to write patches, which will be automatically downloaded when the game runs. And it’s getting to the point that the cartridge or disc just functions as a license key. Maybe some of the game’s assets will be stored there but not the complete game, as they’ll still require large downloads to function.
I’ve been a Nintendo + PC gamer my entire life; basically anything I’ve ever wanted to play was available with that combo…and I’m ditching Nintendo.
The .world TDL makes it sound universal and it didn’t get a reputation as THE place for Mao cultists or whatever like .ml did. So lemmy.world isn’t the center of the lemmyverse but it is in the middle.
Well, I’m kinda curious how much longer home consoles are going to hang on.
Nintendo is releasing their second generation handheld. The Steam Deck is quite popular, and the rest of the PC gaming industry has been scrabbling to match it. Meanwhile, the PS5…exists and what’s an Xbox even for anymore?
People like to say consoles will continue to exist because they’re so much simpler than PCs to “just play” on, but that’s not really true anymore. My parents’ Switch has a multi-page settings menu, an online account and subscription, even games that come on cartridge often require downloads and updates before you start playing. We’re in a different world than when I was a kid, when I could really get a game, plug it in the SNES, flip the switch and it runs.
I could see Microsoft and Sony having an Atari or Sega moment. Exiting the hardware market, shutting down their platform, becoming a relatively minor game studio occasionally remembering to make a game in a property they haven’t published in awhile, like Atari putting out an Alone In The Dark game every 1.5 decades or so.
Generous, or stolen valor? Neither one of them has received the requisite ass kicking to claim the rank. If you’ve never stopped being coddled, you’re still a boy.
Bingo, or Jenga?
Ehh, I think it’s more fair to say we had our turn at making up abbreviations that made sense in our world as it briefly existed.
That commercial “IDK, my BFF Jill?” Was targeted at us, but 100 years ago telegraphers and ham radio operators were inventing abbreviations and slang in Morse code. 73 OM
There was a lack of sinisterness to the PalmOS ecosystem that we’ve lost.